Monologue

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Alchemist | 2:17 - 5:40

Son, I have a story: There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"

This question can only be answered by infinity. Every life that takes part in this infinity might find a unique answer based on what it has seen, comprehended, distilled and accumulated from its experiences. What I am about to tell you will surely not be different than what I just told you.

The key answer to “what life is” can be found when you are capable to see the reality that’s burried deep inside a part of you, when you listen to it, feel it and finally fully comprehend it. To find the answer, you should leave the routines, usuals and chase the bizarre, extraordinary. Maybe by then, you can meet your true self for the first time. In any case, your essence will tell you the necessity to change where you stand and to look at life from different points of view. It’s your job to deploy where your essence lands in the pool of viewpoints. The most I can do is to share my beliefs with you based on my experiences.

First and foremost, forget what others imposed on you and what they desired you to do. Because the others would only want to reign over your life. Yes, we created our rulers, which we worshipped and felicitated. We admired the thoughts that didn’t even blong to us. We masked ourselves with religions and ideologies. We embraced ideologies, started wars and committed genocides. We became fascists, socialists, communists, capitalists, imperialists, anarchists, constructivists but we couldn’t be human.

Narrator | 7:44 - 8:14

A photograph is an image of an object or a self. The production of a photograph depends on the lights that go through the lenses. Photograph is a technical application that freezes slices of time. In the art of cinema, this paradox doesn’t exist. Cinema reflects the true self of an object for a time period. We can see the transformation of an object in cinema just like how it happens in real world.

Boy | 8:36 - 9:52

Void. I don’t even know to whom I am speaking to. It felt like salvation...maybe it was drowning. I now remember her face...the most angelic and meaningful face. She welcomed me with the most beautiful eyes that should never had been blurred with the sight of this world. Even then, I didn’t know where I was. Cold...and numbness. Yes, now I remember the scene. It was a kind of Clockwork Orange effect. I remembered the movies I have seen. Were they real? It was the power of cinema. And again I understand the power of perception. Or was it the power of cinema like the autheurs Bergman and Godard once tried to state? Was cinema superior than reality?

Alchemist | 10:10 - 14:18

We handed others the right to use our own power against us. We all lived head over heels in love with our executioners. As a result, we estranged from ourselves, fell into the dark pool of loneliness and became afraid of ourselves. We always otherized. We very well could label someone as “someone else” even before we could be ourselves. We always wanted more and nothing could satisfy us.

Well, were we able to start a new beginning at the end of all this? Could we find freedom? If we were asked “How is water?” We, all of us who had been thrown into this massive chaos from the first spark of our lives and who lost ourways, would surely respond to this question with a single answer: “ What is water?"

In one of its chapters the Bible provides us with the information on for how long the prophets who lived from the creation of Adam to the birth of Jesus Christ lived and at which age they had children. During the 17th century, some ecclesiastics calculated the creation of universe as B.C. 4004 based on this information. Until the 19th century, people embraced and acknowledged this claim as a fact. Since people essayed to fit the events of millions of years into only 4,000 years, many realities remained left out, some got mixed up, and finally cause and effect relations disappeared.

However, on the timeline of evolution drawn from protozoa to mammals, about 70 million years before our time, a forest rat decided to leave its habitat on the ground and started living on the trees. Over the 60 million years he spent on trees, his body evolved and his hands became developed enough to grab the branches of the trees along with other objects. His skull’s shape shifted to stand straight and his eyes moved from sides to front to see the world and objects in 3D. This same creature, about 12 million years before our time, gained the ability to swing a bat when he went down to savannah and learned to use tools in various ways such as throwing rocks. Science defines this creature as Hominoid (a kind of primate). Whilst this species had been spreading around Africa, it was mutated into three sub species because of diverse environmental circumstances. From these three kinds, two of them dissapeared leaving only one behind to survive. The only species that succesfully survived was called Homo habilis which mutated into Homo erectus, upright man, about one million years ago from today and then evolved into Homo sapiens which means, wise man.

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